Studied at the Repin Institute of Arts (1956– 1963) in the Faculty of Graphic Art under A. F. Pakhomov. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1978), the Tsekh (Guild) group (1991). Worked as an artist for the magazine Neva (1980s), at the N. A. Tyrsa Experimental Printing Studio (1990–1996). Taught at the A. I. Herzen State Pedagogical Institute (1964–1967), at Children’s Art School No. 1 (1967–1974), at Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1974–1978). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, National Library of Russia, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of Urban Sculpture, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), Cherepovets Museum Association, Tomsk Regional Art Museum; Hans Christian Andersen Museum (Odense, Denmark), Guimet Museum (Paris, France).

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